Bybee v. Tharp

Judge Marshall

delivered the .opinion of the Court.

This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a decree for $5506 71, rendered against Bybee and others, his sureties in bond for the performance of his duties as guardian of Mrs. Tharp, formerly Sarah Anne Roane, and a decree over for the same sum, in favor of two of said sureties against Adair and Bridges, who had entered into a covenant to indemnify them against their said suretyship, in consideration of their releasing a mortgage which Bybee had executed to them for the same purpose.

It seems that in 1822., Bybee intermarried with Mrs. Roane,…